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Recommended because: WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. Essential particularily if a lot of mods are added, the upgrades can easily be made without destroying hours of work.

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Recommended because: The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Cost: Free (free version has some limitations) Pro version is $38, but the free version works fine.

Known drawbacks / limitation: free version only allows one POP3 email account. However it works with all email programs such as Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird. Requires some computer knowledge if you want to make the spam filters work at their best (though this is not a necessity to get the other benefits of the program)

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here is a pic of my MailWasher without any incoming emails

The short version:

The top window will show all your emails currently on your ISP server.

The bottom window will show what the email contains.

If you don't like what you see you can delete the emails from your ISP server's computer rather than risking having them download on your pc

thus eliminating a lot of unnecessary hard drive space and potentially stopping a lot of virus and trojan programs coming to your pc.

And a great feature is the Blacklist option. That stops any known ratbag email sender from sending you any more rubbish

it can also import Subtitles and it doesn't need any addtional codecs to play nearly all the formats known to the internet, it's my preferred video viewer as I loathe anything microsoft and Winamp is not up to scratch for video

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Recommended because: im slow and like to have different passwords for things: one master password and im in. I have used it for nearly 10yrs I think. I know browsers do keep some, but also works for things outside computers where u want to store information and is also portable for jumpdrive. 256-bit Blowfish or 128-bit Diamond2 encryption. got to be good if has the word corral in it due to my redneck tendencies.